Game Engine Ploygon Count Question.

Game Engine Game Engine Support and Discussion
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Hey there!

This is just a normal question, something i want to ask out of pure interest.
Does anyone know what the max amount of polygons should be for a character model within the game engine?

I know it may depend on how powerful your computer is
These are my laptop specs (read off the sticker on the keyboard)
AMD Athlon 64 x2 dual-core processor
TK - 55 (1.8 GHz x 256 KB L2 cache)
Up to 752MB NVIDIA GeForce 7000M turbocache
2GB DDR2
120GB HDD

The reason i’m asking, is that i randomly looking for mesh images from actual Gamecube, PS2, PS3, Xbox games etc…and i found this:
It’s the mesh of the main character from the game “beyonetta”

http://i134.photobucket.com/albums/q97/Vergil_Blade/3469144585_de610767df_o.jpg

While i was looking at it, i was wondering…could Blender’s game engine handle that amount of polygons if i made a character with the same sort of mesh detail?

Cheers!

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There is no maximum polygon count per se. It really matters more how you are using the polygons. The Blender Game Engine could handle a mesh like that rather well. However, if you try to use that mesh as a physics object, you will get terrible performance. In an actual use case, you would want to make a very low polygon collision mesh and set the physics type on the detailed mesh to “No Collision.”